When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection

Rage is a short-lived fury.

All interested parties must be willing to make significant sacrifices.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

Service to man is service to god

What is life without laughter?

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.